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Does anyone sell cards at garage sales?

I'm having a garage sale on May 1 and was thinking about packaging up some baseball cards for sale. Does anyone do this and do you sell many cards if you do? What is the best way to package them? Any help would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!

Chris
Chris
My small collection
Want List:
'61 Topps Roy Campanella in PSA 5-7
Cardinal T206 cards
Adam Wainwright GU Jersey

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  • When we used to have yearly sales I used to advertise them and did pretty good selling singles as well as grab bags. Need to get stuff together for a sale this year been about 3 years since we had one.
  • EagleEyeKidEagleEyeKid Posts: 4,496 ✭✭
    I had one about 5 years ago that included cards.
    I made bundles using team bags and inserted 50-75 cards
    or whatever the team bag could hold. They had stars, and
    semi-stars. The kind of stuff that would take ages to move.
    It was a variety from all 4 sports, but each pack stayed within
    its own sport. I made about 50 of these packs and put them in a box and marked the outside of the box "Sportscards .50 cent each" in big letters with a sharpie. I think I sold almost half of what I made. Whatever was left, I gave them out during Halloween.
    I don't think I could ever sell singles at a yard sale. It would be
    too much work, and probably a lot of hassle explaining why I want
    said amount for that card and all. Plus, I don't want people to know
    what I have.
  • WinPitcherWinPitcher Posts: 27,726 ✭✭✭
    Team sets/lots and grab bags seems like a great way to go.

    For the grab bag maybe insert a hi dollar card in 1 or 2 of them that way people have a shot at something
    decent.

    To answer the OP question, mine is no, but I have done shows in the past where
    this has worked.


    Edited to add: Brown paper bags could be used for the grab bags

    Team/lots better to use clear team set type bags.


    Steve

    Good for you.
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